[In Maryland]

"The media focuses only on U3, when U3 should be discounted entirely if U4 also goes up (discouraged workers.).

Oh, the media will use U4 - if the unemployment rate goes up and U4 goes down "It's a hopeful sign that more workers have reentered the workforce!"

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." (Mark Twain wrote it, but attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli. Scholars contest the attribution.)

[xzins]

lies, damned lies, and liberals.